The Chain

The Chain

At the heart of Adrian McKinty’s heart-pounding thriller is a twisted question: Would you kidnap someone else’s child in order to save your own? McKinty, a practiced detective novelist, forces his central character Rachel, a mother who is also a philosophy lecturer, to take that test when she receives the most terrifying phone call a parent could conjure: Her daughter has been abducted, and she must snatch someone else’s child in order to get her back. But as he sends Rachel to face off with the criminals masterminding the horrifying “chain” of kidnapping, McKinty’s greatest trick is forcing readers to ask themselves the uneasy question of what they would do if faced with the same demand.

 

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